Aurea usually just means 'golden' (color) of leaves. It's the 'strangler' part that tells you what to Google to buy one - look up Ficus benghalensis.

I mainly wanted to know if anybody grew one( I guess I probalbly should have said that in the first place). As you can probably tell from my other post, I'm just trying to gather as much imformation as I can about some awsome species of trees.

And, Lucy, I want to know about Ficus AUREA, the REAL strangler fig.

Well, take about 10-20 yrs of learning... a good starter tree, perfect conditions, a great artistic bent, and poof, you have it :-). Seriously, why not post to the Tropicals forum www.bonsaicanada.com/index.php?op=forum and Jerry Meislik (Ficus meister) can give you some hints. BTW, your other post here came thru x 3, and on top of that you reproduced one of mine again somehow, plus if you only meant 'summertime' you should have said so.

Flash - there are many "strangler" figs & aurea is just one of them. I'm not sure where you can buy them. The plant in your link is trained in the "banyan style" a difficult, but not impossible style in your neighborhood. The many prop or aerial roots you see form naturally in humid conditions, or you can undertake a grafting program if you like. If you use some kind of tenting to raise humidity around the plant, air movement or some air exchange through the tent would be required to prevent the fungusuglies that will come calling.

Your neighbor, Jerry Meislik, describes the technique in the link I provide at bottom.

Here is a link that might be useful: Jerry's banyan style notes are only a click away - so click on me!

In my experience, Ficus aurea is a really difficult material to grow indoors. I think you would do much better with a Chinese Banyan, Ficus microcarpa or one of its cultivars.
If you try the aurea, let me know how it goes.
Jerry

I did a little more research and I agree that it may be difficult. My aunt arived today from Hawaii and will be here for 2 months, I wonder if I can convince her to take one back with her if she can get it through customs, then try to bring it back here next time she visits. But just in case that dosen't work, what plants or culivars form aerial roots the very easiest?